The Latest Breaking News from Bird Flu

Extreme weather threatened wildlife across the UK, whilst Northumberland had a "devastating year" due to bird flu in the National Trust's annual review of the year

Niger has reported the highly contagious H5N1 strain of avian influenza, or bird flu, among poultry in a village in the south of the country, the Paris-based World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) said on Tuesday.

Hungary has reported an outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu virus at a turkey farm, the National Food Chain Safety Office (Nebih) said on Tuesday.

His Majesty’s Warden of the Swans called it “unprecedented”

Samantha Milns also says mice, butterflies and seals will enjoy a bountiful summer

Three people have been arrested after animal rights protesters scaled the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) building in central London, on Thursday morning, as they sought to draw attention to the bird flu crisis and intensive farming practices.

Choice of fresh turkey more limited after 1.6m birds died or were culled this year

Four new cases of bird flu at Iowa turkey farms in the past few days will push the number of birds slaughtered nationwide this month to limit the spread of the virus up to nearly 700,000

Culls and compensation have cost hundreds of millions of pounds in the US, UK and Europe, with current outbreak predicted to worsen